you realize the quality of the food back then was much worse, right? way more treated/process/packaged up the wazoo crap. Whole foods type stuff didn’t really exist yet in any broadly available way.
that’s also why it was so cheap. I grew up in the 80s/90s. The food was disgusting and we started getting massive increases in quality in the late 90s/early 2000s. if you ate a 1985 tomato you’d probably spit it out because it tasted like water and fiber and had zero flavor. it probably also had lead and other neurotoxins because of the lack of environmental regulations.
In the 80s my family still got most of our vegetables from cans. It was bad.
or frozen ones that turned into mush once you cooked them. that was my mom’s specialty, serving flavorless nutritionless slop and telling me what an asshole i was for not wanting to eat it. i had no issue eating veggies during holidays… because we actually used fresh ones…
my nephews eat vegetables no problem. because they taste good and are fresh and actually have vitamins.
Have you been watching Supermarket Sweep?
Which of these costs more than $1: Jiffy Pop, Pledge, or Rice a Roni, the San Francisco treat?
Now I gotta wake up early to turn on Price is Right to see how insane the prices are for all the bidding parts.
…It’s still on the air, right? 🤔
Yup, its the oldest ongoing game show and will be it’s 55th season this year hosted by Drew Carey.
There are also 24 hour Price is Right channels on Pluto. They have both a Bob Barker channel and a Drew Carey channel.
I’ll take Rice a Roni, bob!
There was some groovy shopping music.
Why?
To smell the cigarette smoke inside the grocery store.
Why go back in time if there’s plenty of fascists to kill right here and now?
You mean actual fascists and not just people you disagree with… right? Right???
Oh no you didn’t!
I’m not a fascist
You mean fascists in the 3 comma club with their own private militaries and goons in government, chilling inside their doomsday bunkers?
That is one of the set ups in 11/22/63. A guy was buying all the food for his diner by going back in time.
I want to be able to shop in a mall in the 90s. Maybe also a 90s toys r us.
There’s a magical place, we’re on our way there…
get an early start on those babies
Mid 2000s toysrus was better for video games.
I vividly remember my mother griping about how expensive everything had become and asking how anybody was supposed to afford that. Some things just never change.
people’s perception of cost is highly relative.
people love to romanticize stuff without doing any true cost comparisons.
like how bad the environment was in the 1980s compared to today. or how expensive electronics were, and how unsafe cars were (and many were still using lead gas). and how bad nutrition and healthcare was. my dad had a massive heart attack in 2002 and lived another 10 years, in 1985 he’d have died on the spot because the surgery he needed didn’t exist yet. Let’s not even talk about the massive crime problem in the 1980s… and how anyone with any money refused to live in an urban area due to it.
life is generally way safer, cleaner, and healthier now and we have so much more access to improve our lives than we did in the 1980s. but nobody wants to talk about that. just be outraged at the cheapness of groceries and housing.
2080s or 3080s ? Why everyone tries to go back in time if you can go to the future and realize that modern times are not so bad.
You might appreciate this:
Unfortunately this is how fascism starts.
We can fix the system, but instead fascists use the excuse of poverty or a broken system to gain power.
Literally how hitler became popular in Germany. He basically said “your lives are shit, this country should be ashamed of how poor it’s gotten, but I’m here now to improve everyones lives, and blame it on someone who isn’t you”.
And people said “Yeah, that guy isn’t afraid to tell the truth!”
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
They also said “This guy really cares about Germany”, which is getting harder for Magats to pretend everyday.
The only reason not to kill baby Hitler is because his administration was somewhat incompetent… Someone far more skilled could rise up if he isn’t the one to do it and commit even more atrocities.
Otherwise, baby hitler getting thrown off the building. Every time.
“What i want to hear” always wins over truth, even if the former makes absolutely no sense.
I mean…to be fair, he did achieve all his promises. He got people back to work, making living wages.
There’s just this HUGE astrict next to that statement that he did so by murdering millions of people, thus creating a demand for jobs. He also only counted German born white heterosexual males. Sure, unemployment was virtually nonexistant, but women, gays, mentally challenged, other races all were not included in the employment pool.
And the jobs they held were manufacturing war efforts. Whether that was building tanks, making food rations, drilling for oil, it all paid a living wage, and they got to blame someone who wasn’t them.
You ALWAYS have to look for the astrict. It’s like the terms and conditions of the monkeys paw.
*asterisk
Dammit. I typed that, and then said “no…that don’t look right…”
Then I typed “asterict”, and said “That don’t look right either…”
I once got hung up on the word fire for a few minutes. My brain refused to accept that it wasn’t:
Fi - Er
It’s so much more logical, but didn’t look right, for some reason: Fier.
Maybe I’m describing the time I unknowingly had a stroke idk.
They also tanked the economy and had to go to war to stave off the impending collapse.
They did it by both stealing from the people who weren’t them and financial fraud.
Fuck grocery shopping, buy a house.
Better time would have been like 2012.
In the 40s, after you kill Hitler
I cannot stress this enough. Do not kill Hitler after 1925. Once he’s started his ascent to power the train is moving and all you can do now is change the conductor. As it happens Hitler wasn’t the best conductor. Once the war starts he’s the best person for the allies to be in charge of Germany.
Kill Hitler before he goes to jail and writes that fucking book.
Oh I mean what if we just like making the successful artist buy all of his stuff start displaying it build up his confidence would that work?
You absolutely do not want him to have time on his hands and a creative platform. If he’s still going to beer halls, he’ll be charismatic and evil enough to gain power.
Assassinate Hitler during WW1 or earlier.
He was a piece of shit from his younger days. He’d just be evil in other ways.
I would back in time and make my grandma do a full check-up to early discover his brain cancer before become malignant.
Also would try to learn japanese and go back in 2019 and try to force Miura to do a heart check-up
grandma
his brain cancer
…what?
Some people whose first language doesn’t have gendered pronouns mix them up when they speak English.
Maybe, they transitioned before the diagnosis?
But, it was the ‘80s…
Doesn’t work in my country, because there were different currencies during the 80s (current one would have no value) and it was a period oh high economic instability and poverty
Even in the United States, all of the paper money looks very different than it used to in the 1980s except for the one dollar bill. Trying to use today’s money in the past wouldn’t work in a lot of places.
TIL!
You could take artificial diamonds back to the time before there were such things as artificial diamonds.
Pudding pops.
